Dr. Marc Siegel tells ‘Fox and Friends’ that fear is the ‘second virus’ and the anxiety from the coronavirus has made things ‘a lot worse.’
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Two people who got the vaccine
on the first day of the rollout
here to discuss this Fox news,
medical Crintder and author of
Covid
hi, Dr Siegel Good Morning. How
are you
Ainsley im? Well,
two people.
What do you need to be aware of?
If you do have allergies? And you
are thinking about getting the
vaccine?
Well, of course, we have to
remember that thousands have got
then vaccine in clinical trials.
The Pfizer vaccine, without any
untoward effects like that arm.
Swelling yes, but not big
allergies,
and I think whats important
here- is that the two people who
had allergies in the? U dot k were
already carrying an epipin
meaning they had had severe
allergies. In the past warning
where people had to be rushed to
the hospital or had swelling and
decreased blood pressure and
rashes
thats the people, we would
hesitate to give this to right
away
its not for the general
population.
We havent seen a lot of
allergies in all the people that
were studied,
Ainsley, okay.
Well, today is a big day for
America.
Gallup did a survey.
They asked people how their
mental health was during this
pandemic
and women as far as they asked
how many of you feel excellent.
Twenty seven percent were women.
Twenty seven percent of women said excellent.
That is down last year. It was
thirty, seven percent
men, forty one percent last year, forty nine percent that
doesnt surprise any of us,
because we are all going through
this, and everyone probably has
at least a little bit of
anxiety right.
I think its worse than you
said.
Almost one slash three of all Americans now
are reporting severe anxiety or
being down in the dunks.
What about the minor or less
pronounced results? You answer a
survey from Gallup, yes or no.
Everybody is affected by this,
especially if locked down stay
at home or places they are used
to going do or if they are just
worried about. Could I catch this
virus?
Could my loved ones?
Fear is the seconds virus here.
The anxiety from worrying about
Covid has made things a lot lot
worse,
not to mention the loss of jobs
and not getting the medical care.
You need
all of that weighs on all of us
and its going to be so good to
see when we get the effective
vaccine working
when the numbers start to go
down
when we protect our most
vulnerable and can get back to
normal life.
Ainsley definitely made us
appreciate all the things that
we might not have focused on in
the past
family and being able to go out
to a restaurant or do it safely,
and hopefully we will be back to
normal a few months
thanks so much
Ainsley. I want to go to a
movie
Ainsley right.
I want to go. Take my daughter to
go see the Rockettes
cant. Do it this year,
go to a concert
go to church.
I love to see those photos of.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-17.